snowdrop

suomi-englanti sanakirja

snowdrop englannista suomeksi

Any of the 20 species of the genus (taxfmt) of the (taxfmt), bulbous flowering plants, bearing a solitary, pendulous, white, bell-shaped flower that appears, depending on species, between autumn and late winter or early spring, all native to temperate Eurasia.
1722, (w), ''Kensington Garden'', London: Printed for Tonson|Jacob Tonson, in the London|Strand, (w) 270894685; republished in ''The Poems of Garth|Garth, and Tickell'' (The British Poets. Including Translations. In One Hundred Volumes; XXVII), Chiswick, Middlesex: From the press of Whittingham|Charles Whittingham, College House, 1822, (w) 16074759, page 166:

A flower that first in this sweet garden smiled, / To virgins sacred, and the Snow-drop styled.

(RQ:Thomson Widows and Widowers)
1865, (w) Marie Louise de la Ramée, “White Ladies”, in ''Strathmore: A Romance.'' ... ''In Three Volumes'', London: & Hall|Chapman and Hall, 193, (w), (w) 4557613; republished as ''Strathmore: A Romance.'' ... ''In Two Volumes'' (Collection of British Authors; 1169), volume I, Tauchnitz edition, Leipzig: publishers|Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1871, (w) 798495291, page 9:

White Ladies did not mean snowdrops, by their pretty old English name, ghosts in white cere-clothes, or belles in white tarlatan.